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Outside of the fresh setting, which will last a few months, how would 40 man raids be more exciting than flex ones? I can't get excited by this because design wise it's WOW++ with a new coat of paint. It sounds like the designers are competent and the game will be good, but it's nothing...

Best of luck, mate. I think attitude is the best weapon against cancer. Beat the shit out of it and show it who's boss.

Thanks for the Starforge tip. What a shame. The game design sounds really cool and I was intrigued.

So, what you are saying is you're a Wildstar insider. Your TESO agenda makes perfect sense now. My post was humorous. I wish the guy nothing but the best, but I disagree with the premise of attempting to leverage a real life issue into a beta invite, and on the old FOH he would've been...

I have an extra copy of Chivalry, if anyone wants to trade anything for it.

rofl was light compared to what would've happened if he posted that on FOH. I think coming here looking for sympathy and to discuss it is cool, in the grown up section. Posting it in a manner pleading for a beta invite.. well, not cool. and...all guys judge other guys who are gay.. It's...

Two play throughs and both times I have yet to be able to found a religion. It seems they are gobbled up way too soon. I used to have to build troops up just to counter Bismark or Caesar, but now it seems most of the AI players are too tame. This is on Prince setting, I guess I could up it...

I find it interesting you are saying NCSoft is a punishment as a parent company, when they seem to be the only publisher in town doing anything. Who's better and what other options are there? Blizzard mothballed Titan, and EA is probably never touching another MMO after Earth & Beyond and now...

I think player content is the future, but not in the manner of STO where players design shitty missions or pretend to be dungeon masters. The proper player content would be part of the world, such as a player owned keep, with rented guards and mercenaries, and a persons acquired loot guarded by...

I have to disagree a bit. I like Ut, and his posts usually have merit but he sometimes goes Tasmanian Devil on certain threads. I'm just trying to 'redirect' this as he does add a lot of value when he isn't going ape shit. Also, predicting MMO doom isn't exactly reaching. I guess I shouldn't...

All I care about is when is the next double exp weekend.

I'm sure theoretically this is true, but the real world anecdotal evidence begs to differ. I'm cool with PVP/PVE, and my preference is open world PVP in a gated area to protect ones normals. What ends up torpedoing things is when the devs are more worried about balance and making everyone a...

GW2 straddled the fence between PVE and PVP too closely and essentially missed the boat on both of them. They had some interesting ideas but at the end of the day they sold their game as a PVP one, but it lacked objectives, real progression, and anything of real ownership. Their PVE actually was...

DMK, that's just a clusterfuck of rules. I'm of the 'keep it simple', make it fun school of armchair game design. I also like instancing. I think there should be a balance of instances and non instances in a sandbox MMO, with sprinkled in PVP in a Frontiers like setting. Also, class balance...

The dozens of pages of you shitting on this title really make it hard to trust you, added by the fact you solely focus on this game. The kicker is when you aren't on a crusade, your posts are generally fun and amusing. It comes across like your purpose here is to attack TESO. I doubt it's the...

I'd argue UO was a gateway to EQ. I played UO which prepped me for EQ. Basically, any of my friends without a 3dfx card played UO. Those with one, played Everquest. A lot of people played both. It'd be nice if all new MMOs coming out were designed as differently from their predecessors as EQ...

I'm loving the gameplay and the new challenges. Barbarians really are far more challenging in this new iteration. I'm so used to having a ton of cash early on that I'll have to change my playstyle as early game money is much slower and dependent on my caravans not getting smoked.

My guess is they are closely watching how EA is milking TOR for big bucks by leveraging both a cash shop and a subscription program, and will in typical Blizz fashion re-engineer it and use it to get the most dollars they can. WOW is an older product and the MMO market is saturated so it makes...

The problem is so many MMOs are targeted at younger demographics. The settings and graphics of the original Diablo and Diablo II were a thing of beauty. It's a bummer Blizz didn't enhance that into a first person format and make their MMO based on that. I had hoped the Warhammer game would be...

The design doc is good, the team appears to be competent, and they have a pretty good vision of what they are building. That said, the game has that WOW cartoony look which I detest. Every time I see more videos I cringe at them copying the exact look of it. I agree Itzena's a WOW zealot...

Since 90% of their subs are hourly in China I think, this does not make any sense. The cash shop is for their bleeding western sub base. The cash shop is usually the precursor to F2P. I'm wondering what their bottom line for Western subs will be before they pull the F2P trigger. Looking...

Generally I'd agree but Civ V is one of the few mainstay games I play frequently. It's a far better investment than 60 for a new console game or even 20 for a crappy RPG or FPS that I won't get 5% of the playtime. I've played a few hours this AM, and I like a lot of the new features. Multi...

Really, there is a huge open market for MMO players if the genre evolves to not be the same type of games in the same type of box we've historically seen.

I agree somewhat. Star Trek Online seems more like the old Star Fleet Battles board game, and has less of a 'MMO clone' feel to it like SWTOR. SWTOR has good lore and a Star Wars'sy feel, but it doesn't nail it like Galaxies did, but then again it's supposed to be 'The Old Republic'. I just...

That pretty much covers SWTOR in a nutshell. Really, this game is half single player, and half WOW clone theme park. I enjoy the single player Bioware stuff, sans the silly grinds, and the Star Wars lore is fun, but it's a shame they had no sort of original vision for this game and just wanted...

There's a 25% penalty to exp for non subscribers, but one can circumvent that with a 25% bonus item from the Cartel Store. Since I had 1500 cartel points due to owning an authenticator I bought a few, and played most of yesterday, too. I was able to get up to level 35. I'm on Ebon Hawk, also. I...

I think it comes with their inability to pronounce consonants.

I bet you can think of a lot of hours spent in EQ for silly things that you wouldn't ever do again, though, that seemed very meaningful at the time. How do devs make content that is meaningful but not soul devouring? At this point I'll take simple fun and depth over it being that meaningful...

I think part of it is we are all grumpier and older. I don't have the patience to game anymore, so a lot of titles I would've played through in my teens or twenties, I won't touch now. There are still a lot of deep games out there, if you are using RPGs as your baseline. Most of the Bioware...

I've played the last day and gained 5 levels on my F2P account. My understanding is the double exp works, but rested does not. I tried to check the SWTOR site for the difference in exp gain between free to play and subs, but they didn't actually provide any relevant information I do wish...

I have fun memories of the Crushbone and Karnors trains, but the problem for a new game is in having consequences, but also in protecting the normals. I'm hopeful AI and scripting has advanced enough to enable the best of both worlds. I don't think just enabling walk back prox aggro is a...

I feel pretty much the same. I'm intrigued, but at the end of the day it's still SOE with the same ding dongs running the show. I'm not sure if Smed has actually figured things out, or if he's merely gotten much better at the hype train.

Everything done in Rift is done well, but my issue is everything about the game is been there, done that. It's not just Rift, to be fair. Every time I get a free week in WOW I'm done by the second day. I wouldn't use the word decrepit. For me, it's just boring.

The price of used cars is just fucking outrageous. Is a 12 year old car with 120k really worth 8k dollars? I can go cheaper and get a Pontiac or Chevy, but heck, what's the chance those will last more than 2 years? The only thing one can get for under 4k is a beater on life support, it seems...

I play a few weeks, tell myself that, take a break for a month or two, then rinse and repeat. My problem is, to quote Styx, I have too much time on my hands. The only really different animal out there is EVE, and every time I get myself psyched to play I just go spend two days reading...

I'm looking to pick up a first car for a teenager. I'd like to spend a few grand and get something that is fairly reliable local transportion. Google Fu has not been very helpful and my research is all over the map. I do not want to spend 8 or 10k on a used car, but I do want to get something...

Wow, does leveling from 50 to 60 seem really slow. That or I'm just impatient as fuck. I guess it's not that bad, but I'm used to other games and a few hours per level. I have my vet rewards I haven't used, since I was thinking it'll get even nastier the closer to 60 I get. I remember initially...

It's not going to happen. I'd love to see killer nextgen titles with super graphics and surround sound, but as was said there isn't money in it. The dinero is on the consoles. I'll nab a PS4 in December. I don't see a game even in development that will require me to upgrade my PC, let alone...

You have multiple G keys with multiple macro's bound to them, and can set some to auto repeat or not. Say you have 5 defensive abilities not on the global cooldown. You can map all of those to say, key G5 so when it's your turn as the tank to take the big hit, you press one key and all 5 of...